Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What's the Big Deal With Gluten?

For Students 9th - 10th
If you've been to a restaurant in the last few years, you've likely seen the words gluten-free written somewhere on the menu. But what exactly is gluten, and why can't some people process it? And why does it only seem to be a problem...
Website
Other

Better Homes and Gardens: Ethnic Food Recipes

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy your favorite restaurant meals at home with ethnic-inspired recipes from Better Homes and Gardens. You'll find delicious recipes for cuisine including Mexican, Asian, Italian, French, and more.
Activity
Other

East Tennessee State University: Explicit and Implicit Costs

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a good example of the differences between explicit costs and implicit costs using the ownership of a pizza restaurant as an example.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Prices Involving Sales Tax

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Have you ever had to calculate a tip in a restaurant? Figure out the amount with taxes and estimate appropriate tips.
Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Communities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Plan an outing to a local restaurant where the wait staff speak your target language. Consider how you will prepare your students, monitor interactions during the visit and debrief afterwards.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if Pizza Place Promotion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this task, young scholars investigate the price of pizza at a new restaurant, how to get the best deal, and what equations represent the functions. Aligns with F-IF.B.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Blind Man's Holiday" by O Henry

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Blind Man's Holiday" by O Henry; John Lorison, self-exiled to New Orleans, meets Norah Greenway in a cheap restaurant. They soon become friends, but each night, Norah inexplicably leaves John at 8...
Handout
Other

American Diabetes Association: Food and Fitness: What Can I Eat: Eating Out

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to make low fat, low sugar, and low sodium food choices, even when eating out. This guide serves as a helpful tool not only for diabetics who need to control their blood glucose levels, but for anyone seeking to eat healthfully,...
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Crazy Pizza

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson engages students with working in teams to determine the best unique pizza topping to add to a restaurant menu. Students will use criteria such as taste, cost, and nutrition to make their...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's on Your Plate?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In today's fast food world, it can be hard to make healthy eating choices. In this lesson, students will learn how they can incorporate healthy eating habits in their daily routines. They will use menus from local restaurant chains and...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A La Restaurante!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an activity to test the strength of the learners. It allows students to exercise everything that they have learned throughout the school year. It is suitable for Spanish I-Spanish IV learners. It is an end-of-the-year activity...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Review 1: Eating Out at the Hamburger Hut Working With Decimals

For Teachers 6th
For this lesson, 6th graders will review the procedures involved in calculating with decimals and they will have to apply that knowledge to answer questions about eating at a restaurant.
Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze a children's meal from a local fast food restaurant to confirm or deny the presence of fat, protein, simple carbohydrates (sugar) and complex carbohydrates (starch).
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Meatball Launcher

For Students Pre-K - K
Use this game resource to foster counting out 1 to 5 objects upon request. George is working in Chef Pisghetti's restaurant and is using the new meatball launcher! Children can help him add the right number of meatballs to each plate.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Chairs

For Students 3rd - 8th
This application is used to explore the number of chairs needed when tables are rearranged in a restaurant.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alan's Pizzeria

For Students 2nd - 6th
Welcome to Alan's Pizzeria! Put your pizza-making skills to the test with this exciting restaurant game. After you take your customer's order, work fast to create and cook the perfect pizza. But be careful not to mix up the peppers with...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Real World Expressions and Equations: Tip Jar

For Students 6th - 8th
Examine whether the common practice of tipping 20% of a restaurant bill for great service is fair. This video focused on different ways to visualize the current method of tipping and proposed potential changes to the standard practice.
Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Food and Beverage Serving Occupations

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information on food and beverage serving occupations. It has sections on the nature of the work, working conditions, employment, training and advancement, job outlook, earnings, and additional information.
Handout
Other

University of Delaware: Major Resource Kits

For Students 9th - 10th
Major Resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major....
Website
Careers New Zealand

Careers Nz: Waiter/waitress

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains detailed information about the waiter/waitress career field. While this site is based out of New Zealand and contain information for that country, there is valuable data that is useful about this career.
Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida): Listening/dialogs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
Graphic
Curated OER

Original Mc Donald's Restaurant

For Students 9th - 10th
Where did the hamburger come from? How has it become such an icon and staple of American life? "Present at the Creation," explores these questions and gives us a variety of possible answers. You can even watch an early McDonald's...
Graphic
Curated OER

Mob Hit in Restaurant, 1933.

For Students 9th - 10th
National Public Radio tells the story of the traveling display of LAPD archived photos from crime scenes as early as the 1920s, some of them "Wonderfully cinematic."
eBook
Other

El Andar Magazine: Gary Soto: Dining in Fresno

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the online version of the magazine "El Andar," presents an essay by Gary Soto about his dining experiences in Fresno, including the entertaining story of his meal with a friend in a Fresno restaurant in 1983.

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